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Fsbuild 2.0 Now available from Fsbuild.com

Page Last updated Jul 18 2003

News

Jul 18 2003 Ver 1.4.3 Update FSBUILD 1.4.3 Update (600 Kb)
Oct 30 2002 Fsbuild 2.0 feature list
Jul 20 2002 Fsbuild 2.0 Screenshots
SEP 8 2001: Check here for a good tutorial by Jim Gordon showing how Fsbuild can be used in conjunction with the FAA Preferred routes database, FSNavigator, and the 767PIC FMS.
SEP 8 2001: FLY! Navdata for Fsbuild ) available for download.
Alternate Download site

- FLY! Navdata for Fsbuild )

Read Me

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X-PLANE support:
In version 1.1.20+ we have support for the ES_GPS add-on for X-Plane. Now you can export Fsbuild Flight Plans into the X-Plane GPS !.
FLY! support:
Since Beta 7 we have support for Terminal Reality's FLY! Simulator. Now all of FSbuild's Flight Plans can be exported to FLY! GPS/FMS for the King Air, Hawker, and even PMDG's 757/767/777 series for FLY!. So In essense FLY! users now have access to the same AIRAC Navdata Flight Simulator add-on users do via FSbuild.
That's now '4' Flight Sim's FSbuild supports (FS98/2000, PS1, FLY!, X-PLANE) !!

Fsbuild Development Activity

(1.43 Activity) (Jul-18-2003)

Support for PMDG 737NG FMC added.
Support for new FS2004 Planner files location.
Fixed problem with cruise alt entered as 5000, being displayed as as 50.000
(1.40 Activity) (Jul-27-2001)
Added 4000 new real world Crossair flight plans (Mostly European routes, courtesy of Andreas Fuchs).
Removed Aircraft menu (never worked anyway)
Fixed problem with PSS A320 runways, and SID/STAR's not displaying.
Fixed problem with PSS A320 crossing altitude displaying incorrectly
Expanded FS2002 text box on options page so the full text of the label can be seen.
Fixed problem with SID id's with non numbers as last character not processing correctly (Ex: VOLLA01L SID).
Fixed problem with some GPS98 waypoints not exporting correctly.
(1.39 Activity) (May-12-2002)
Support for Tom Whang's SimWx added.
Changed references from Accuweather to 'SimWx' for Tom Whang's weather program.
Added waypoint id to SimWx file fpin.txt
PSS A320 .afp file format export support.
Added support for PMDG 757 'RTE' page (airways only).
Screen width decreased slightly.
(For earlier activity see the Notes section.

Remaining Tasks

M - To Add Ability to save Routes created or modified on the grid.
M - To Update Documentation (fsbuild.doc is woefully out of date).
M - To Include flight plans for missing return trips to match existing flight plans.
L - To Investigate problem with occasionally missing config info on options page.
L - Update Aircraft performance information
L - Active Flight Plan grid 'via' column not being cleared when next plan is built (result is wrong airway sometimes displayed).

Flight Simulators supported by FSBuild

Microsoft Flight Simulator

Aerowinx Precision Simulator 744 (PS1) vers 1.2 - 1.3

Terminal Reality FLY! Simulator

X-Plane

Virtual Aviation Support for Fsbuild

Ozark Virtual Airline

Southwest Virtual Seattle Hub

British Airways Virtual

Virtual Pilot Planner

CPA Virtual (Cathay Pacific)

Singapore VA

SpeedBird Online

Air Lib Virtual

American Pacific Group

IVAO Chicago ARTCC

Southwest Virtual Dallas Hub

Lyon Air Virtual Airline

Hacksaw's FS2002 resource center

SWISS FIR (Vatsim)

Virual Fedex Oakland Hub

VATSIM Minneapolis ARTCC

VATSIM Kansas City ARTCC

VATSIM Boston ARTCC

Pacific West Airways

VASP Virtual Airlines

UPS Virtual Air Cargo

Noble Air Chicago Hub

Continental VA Newark Hub

France Airways 747-400 (PS1)

NAVDATA Homepage

FS2000 Crew Center

FSCharts.com

FLY! in Italia con RVi

FLY! Links

Startkabel.nl

Foros-FS.Net

Flight Sim GPS/FMC Add-ons supported by FSBuild

PMDG 777 & 757 for FLY!2

Phoenix 747, 777, and A320

Flight Simulator 2000/2002 GPS

FSNavigator 3/4 (Helge Schroeder)

Navstar99 (David Drouin)

EFIS98/2000 (Papa Tango/Chris Brett)

GPS98 (David Drouin)

SQUAWKBOX FMS

ACS-GPS98 V1

Giants of the Sky Boeing 747 Panel (Flight-1)

NAVDASH 2.5

DPGPS

Apollo First Class 747 Panel (FS98 only)

Other Add-ons supported by Fsbuild

SimWx (Tom Whang)

InfoMetar (David Sandberg)

FLTPLN.COM (US only)

WorldWide Airport Path Finder

Whazzup

FSNavigator

Jeppesen FliteStar

DUATS

RoutPlan/FuelPlan (PS1)

Ultimate Airlines

NAV 30 (Ted Wright)

Project Magenta

DreamFleet Boeing 737

GPWS98 (Wilco van Deijl)

GPWS98 Update for FS2000

VATSIM, online Air Traffic Control

FSUIPC ver 2.00

Precision Manuals 707,747,757,767 Manuals and Aircraft

CFGEdit , outstanding freeware Panel editor

FLY! Links

Johnny's FLY! Zone

FSBuild References

Avsim Contrails Flight Planning for FS2002 article (Features Fsbuild)

Information sources for FSBuild

Navdata web site (Richard Stefan)

Marc Brodbeck's AvSite

Clearance Unlimited U.S. Preferred IFR routes and US Low and High altitude Airway data.

SAS FSS Project Site

Aviation Formulary

SATPAC web site Australia Preferred IFR routes.

Direct Link to Australian Preferred routes page

SATUK web site SATCO standard North Atlantic Tracks.

AirNav web site (Info on US Navaids).

Dennis Thompson (Extracted and converted FS2000, VOR,NDB, and Intersection data to Fsbuild format)

PS1.3 Author Hardy Heinlin provided information on PS1.3 .ROU format.

PS1 Glideslope Route Archive

NFDS Operational Preferred Routes Database

Below are some paper or software data sources used on the FSBuild Project

NOAA/NACO Terminal Procedures, Low and High Altitude Maps

DoD FLIP Charts

Jeppesen SimCharts

National Geophysical Data Center (World Magnetic Model used in Fsbuild)

FSBuild Data Diagram Do you want to see how many options are available to you when using the flexible Fsbuild for your Flights, see the link above. There are several Real World, and Flight Sim methods of getting Flight Plans into Fsbuild, and many export formats to export the Flight Plans.

Created by Ernie Alston, alstoer1@compuserve.com

Since April 18 2000

FSBuild, Flight Planner & Builder for Flight Simulator

Jul 18 2003 Ver 1.4.3 Update FSBUILD 1.4.3 Update (600 Kb)

(1.43 Activity) (Jul-18-2003)

(1.40 Activity) (Jul-27-2001)

(1.39 Activity) (May-12-2002)

(For earlier activity see the Notes section.